Take a look at all the photos, videos and updates shared as students are designing and implementing their Project WaSH-W in their schools here, including a video compilation of your fantastic work. Or you can find further information about this project, including the learning journal, instructional videos and a teacher's guide below.

This project used design thinking principles to help create local solutions around clean water, sanitation, hygiene and wellbeing. This is a key area of learning during COVID-19, but also relates to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation and Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. This project also aimed to build and deepen students' STEM skills.

This project was split into sections for each part of the design thinking process:

1. Empathy - participants completed a number of activities to better understand the challenges around WASH-W, especially in a time of COVID-19. This included scientific thinking and some deep reading, so participants were required to adopt the analytical mindset of a scientist to deeply understand the challenge from multiple perspectives.

2. Definition - participants completed an actor’s map of their school's community to figure out where the biggest challenges were so that they could then build a solution.

3. Ideation - participants generated a number of ideas for possible solutions and shared them with others to get feedback on which solution they should try and build.

4. Prototyping and testing - participants tried and built a prototype of their solution to see if they could make it work. 

This program was intended for participants to enact their solutions on their communities to improve aspects of water, sanitation, hygiene and wellbeing. 

Watch the six instructional videos via the YouTube playlist below or using the individual videos files further down.